The Committee will continue its work based on the renewed mandate established by the General Assembly, and will consider revised texts of policy objectives and principles for the protection of traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions/folklore.Invitations: As members, the States members of WIPO and/or the Paris Union, and the European Community; as observers, certain organizations.

Panel of Indigenous and Local Communities - A South Pacific Perspective on the Protection of Traditional Knowledge, Traditional Cultural Expressions and Related Genetic Resources: The Case of Bindeku/Kamaneku Tribes of the Highlands Region of Papua New Guinea